Thinking Right
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Even though it’s been 20 years since I’ve been in school of any kind, September still brings with it the feeling of a fresh start, a clean slate, another chance, of purpose, and of promise.
The desire to be different tugs at my heart. More loving, less demanding, more patient, less of a perfectionist, the longing pulls.
The hope that it’s possible to get off the world’s treadmill to walk instead on the narrow road is renewed.
The Bible says, “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – His good, pleasing and perfect will.”
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Mark Buchanan puts it this way. “Transformation is the fruit of a changed outlook. First our minds are renewed, and then we are transformed, and then everything is different, even if it stays the same.” (p 33, The Rest Of God, by Mark Buchanan)
God knows the story of how you arrived where you presently are. He knows the scars you bear, the pain and struggle of your days. He wants to make everything different, even if it stays the same. And the way it happens is through the rehabilitation of our thinking process.
Right thinking includes:
God loves me; I am of infinite worth in His sight.
God is in control; He has a good plan for my life.
Money and stuff are temporary; people are of eternal value.
It’s time to start thinking right, to know how much we are loved by God, to understand our lives have purpose and significance.
It’s time to allow God to transform our minds.
Holy God, I want to think on what is true, not what the world says or values. Renew my mind so that my life will be transformed.
Question: How do you keep your mind focused on what is true, and now merely on what the world says?
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I keep my mind focused on what is true by reflecting on ‘before’; before Jesus Christ was my Savior; before when the heart was a hardened one; before when the only father I ever knew never knew me and before I realized who my Father truly was. These thoughts do not consume me by any means, yet every now and then they ‘pop’ up if you will and for me, that’s a good reflection.
Renewing of the mind cannot be done simply by saying that it will be so. For me, I had to ‘feel’ it within, to the depths of my soul. I am just now starting to ‘feel’ the rewards of right thinking. I know that my Father loves me and that I’m no longer alone in this faith journey.
Roman 12:12. May He transform our minds that’s where the change starts…. Oh bless His name…